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Best Backup Software for Hyper-V/VMware environments

Microsoft Hyper-V is one of the popular hypervisors in modern data centers. It helps to host multiple virtual machines in single physical hardware to save space and power. Hyper-V provides flexibility to operate your workload in your private cloud environment in the most efficient way. It also supports the VDI environment which provides a centralized desktop solution to extend access to the vendors and partners safely. This article will share the list of back software which supports Hyper-V and offers robust data protection to the Hyper-V environments.

1. Vembu Backup & Replication for Hyper-V

BDRSuite is known for highly reliable backup solutions for virtualized environments. BDRsuite supports the Hyper-V environment and provides an agentless backup solution for the workloads. Application-aware backup processing ensures that no manual work is needed to start the application after restoring from the backup. It supports Instant Boot VM with Live Migration and Cross-Hypervisor migration (V2V) as well. It supports Back up file-consistent Linux VMs without shutting down the machine. Vembu BDRsuite can be hosted on Windows and Ubuntu servers

If you want to experience the product, you can download the product for free and backup up to 10 VMs for free without any feature restrictions. You can download the product directly without providing a business email address.

Here is the 10 reason why you need to choose BDRsuite over other products.

vembu BDRSuite

2. Altaro VM Backup

Altaro VM Backup offers an Intuitive user interface that makes it easy to configure and run backup/restore/replication jobs. It supports augmented inline deduplication which means common data is only transferred to the backup or offsite location once. Like BDRSuite, it also supports live VMs backup by leveraging Microsoft VSS with zero downtime.

Altaro VM backup provides 30-day free trial to experience the product but you need to provide your business email to get the product.

ALTARO – Hornetsecurity group

3. Veeam Backup

Veeam Backup and Replication provides the flexibility to protect your data in different ways like backup, replication, storage snapshots, and CDP to achieve your RPO and RTO requirements. Veeam Universal License (VUL) can help to protect Virtual, cloud, Physical, and NAS shares like BDRSuite. Veeam also offers Policy-based tiering of data across object storage classes. It also integrates seamlessly with native environments.

Veeam – Instant Recovery at Scale

4. NAKIVO Backup and Replication

The NAKIVO solution for VMware backup and recovery provides agentless and app-aware backup solutions similar to the above mentioned product lists. Supports multi-tenant architecture and deploy anywhere approach are key features of Naviko Backup and Replication. It supports both VMware vSsphere and Hyper-V platforms. Like other backup software , it supports both windows and Linux guest operating systems.

Nakivo – Backup and Replication

Conclusion:

There are plenty of backup software available in the market. But i had just listed top 4 software which highly reliable and cost effective for enterprises and SMBs needs. These software are developed to protect multiple environment like VMware vSphere, Hyper-v, Cloud and ONPREM. These software supports windows and Linux guest operating systems without need of any agents on the running VM. Instant VM recovery, quick support , Disaster recovery solution , inbuilt compliance dashboard makes BDRSuite standout in the competition.

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